From the course: Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

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Import and organize images

Import and organize images - Photoshop Tutorial

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Import and organize images

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- As I said earlier, importing is the first step in your workflow and with it comes organization, simply because you have to choose a place to import your images to. There are many ways to import your images. You can simply use your computer's operating system to copy the files from your camera's media card to your computer. And that approach does work with Lightroom. Or you can let Lightroom handle the copying for you. You'll need a card reader, either one that attaches to your computer or one built into your computer. You can also plug your camera directly into your computer, effectively turning it into a card reader. However you end up performing the copy the images have to be imported into Lightroom, and here's why. Lightroom is more than just an image editor, it's also a database. When you import an image into Lightroom, Lightroom stores the location of that image in a record in its database. That record also contains all of the keywords that you apply to the image, the ratings…

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